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Boeing received approval on 2020-10-07 to continue development of a new satellite for the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satcom constellation.
Appropriators in the 2020 Defense Department conference report raised concerns about the Air Force’s commitment to provide accurate and timely weather data for worldwide military operations.
The TACGEO program is designed to support the Department of Defense’s need for responsive, space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for tactical applications.
The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest user of satellite capacity in the world and is exploring ways to utilize capacity coming online in GEO, MEO, and LEO orbits.
NASA works closely with the U.S. Department of Defense on monitoring potential collisions of debris with the International Space Station and other agency spacecraft.
The National Academy of Public Administration published a report on 2020-08-20 concluding that the Commerce Department was the best agency for civil space traffic management compared to NASA, the Department of Defense, and the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
Space Policy Directive 3, signed in June 2018, called for the Commerce Department, through its Office of Space Commerce, to take on civil space traffic management responsibilities then handled by the Department of Defense.
The fiscal year 2020 defense appropriations conference report found that the Department of Defense lacks consensus on its space architecture plans to meet requirements for strategic and tactical missile warning, missile defense, and battlespace awareness mission areas.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency supports both the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense.
L3Harris Technologies is responsible for maintaining and modernizing the U.S. military’s network of space surveillance sensors under a 10-year, $1,200,000,000 MOSSAIC contract awarded in February 2020.
The Department of Defense procurement process continues to use the program objective memorandum (POMing) approach that originated under Robert McNamara in 1951.
The Department of Defense procurement process still follows the Joint Requirements Oversight Council process that was established in 1984.
DARPA plans to launch as many as 20 small satellites for the Blackjack program to demonstrate a mesh network in low Earth orbit that can meet military requirements at lower cost and shorter design cycles than traditional Pentagon programs.
Govini found that the number of Chinese suppliers in the Defense Department’s supplier base increased by 420% from 2010 to 2019 to 655 in the sampled data.
The Space Development Agency is a U.S. Department of Defense agency charged with transforming the military’s approach to developing and acquiring space systems.
Blue Canyon Technologies selected Orbion Space Technology to supply the electric propulsion system for the U.S. military’s Blackjack constellation on 2020-09-15.
Thomas Zelibor aims to bring new ideas and the latest technologies to the Department of Defense through his appointment to the DIB SAC.
Thomas Zelibor will provide independent advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Defense and other senior Department of Defense leaders on emerging space technologies.
Thomas Zelibor is uniquely qualified to identify and assess emerging space technologies that could benefit the Department of Defense.
Thomas Zelibor spent the first 34 years of his career in the US military.